Life around cool stars may be different than us

It’s amazing to think that just a few years ago we had no clue about planets around other stars. Now we know of over 300, and we’re getting an idea of how they form, where they form, how they behave, and whether there’s a chance of any being like home, our home.

Not only that, we’re learning whether they can form around stars that are different than the Sun: more massive, less massive, hotter, cooler, whatever.

And new Spitzer Space Telescope results show that when conditions to form planets are different, the chemistry is different as well.

Full article here:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/04/07/life-around-cool-stars-may-be-different-than-us/